… or are you just happy to see me?

… Because they absolutely would have just taken turns

Maybe some guys are just more confident in themselves and desire a bit of a challenge… The more outgoing and assured a woman is about their own desires, the better they are in the bedroom, at least for those that can deal with a woman’s needs instead of only thinking of their own pathetic self.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a place for many ways in the spectrum of stronger vs subdued, but the best is when regardless of the play outside the bedroom they can be clear about what they need and want once inside.

A very astute observation from the author Heinlein:

“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”

I’m not super happy about connotations of some of the words but for it’s time written, the summation of “fuck what society thinks and absolutely do anything you desire” holds great value.

She doesn’t have to be a Dom to be clear about her needs. Strong confidence just means she knows her weapon and can bring a bit of a rumble to the tumble.

Dudes who are afraid of strong chicks need to go jerk off in their overbuilt bullshit trucks and stop harassing women and trying to convince everyone their dicks aren’t 3".

Take some fucking Viagra or something if you can’t keep it up when a woman talks.

The orange tent is like the butt stuff version of a blue light special!

Ok, but what type of autistic?

My brother and I are different types. He’s super genius, and it’s not Savantism. Crazy good physicist, but awkward.

My daughter is yet another. Smart, not like my brother but not an idiot. Absolutely all of hers is wrapped up in communicative and emotional disorders, with some associated tics and traits. She has to learn social interactions the hard way and still lives my mimic frequently.

I’m the one that was able to read body language absurdly accurately, to the point of fault and often pissing other folks of as I had no idea why they said something when it was absolutely false… This combined with a nearly faultless audio sense of memory (not eidetic) got my into frequent trouble with people getting mad at me not got arguing, but for always being right.

So I ask… Who exactly did they stick under the microscope here? I’m not bitching; I really want there to be more and better research here, but I’m skeptical of most that wraps up things in so neat a headline or category. What variations of spectrum? Did they compensate for more societal assumptions and myths than has been the history here?

The paper itself lists a highly limiting scope, with effectively a bias that would have eliminated all 3 of us from consideration for various reasons. Instead, they are polling data from effectively a group that in glance looks like a socially acceptable grouping, leaving out a huge block that have any metal illness diagnosis based on 2013 DSM… A joke in itself here.

I appreciate that they are trying to look at an early development baseline to see what forms differently at crucial 1-4 year ages and then watching confirmed formation changes in later life. My concern is that ruling out what at a glance is a huge sampling purely on assumption that “mental illness” and a few of the other limits they imposed have boxed them into the old single flavor diagnosis again.

Today, the Internet was good.

That’s simply glorious.

Me exiting the Taco Bell bathroom: “Notice me senpai!”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano

AYBABTU is Lord!

A respectable puddle of puss. Mirage of meow.

Coalition of chill. Critical mass of snoozyfluff.

Miniature Zen senate.

27 lives in condensed storage mediums.

High efficiency blanket gravity enforcement.

Cuddle of kitties… A veritable calamity of cute.

As of press time, the label was forced to pause the AI songwriter after it wouldn’t stop saying the N-word over and over.

😂

What the fuck is an Alamo? Is it like an Internet but with less porn?

Toilet probably halfway through the floor… Not really hooked up to nothin but can’t afford to fix it with ammo and formula prices being so high.

His powers of time manipulation and psychic control are indeed legend. With seeming little effort (probably napping), he reached through the void of time and space to appear on my little screen and save me from feeling crappy tonight.

Thank you Ganon!

If the gabapentin helps, have you looked at pregabalin? My doc suggested it and it’s like a super gabapentin. Much more effective, less side effects.

It’s been a huge help for me… Made the difference between active and not active most days.

Steroid epidurals also helped me a lot, but your needs might vary.

My doctor and I suspect a childhood injury initially, but absolutely degenerative over time after the fact. My symptoms had largely been just pain for most of my life, but 2014-2016 saw them start to affect walking and hand use.

The thought was that youth masked things, but middle age caught me 😄

Woah… I’ve caught myself sitting like that unconsciously for years and kept thinking it was bad lol… That position is my go to on bad days. Never thought about it actually putting things into a good state.

Excellent.

The years of misdiagnosis and useless treatments are the worst. I now have a set of docs that I am literally afraid of losing as these actual listen and dig into the why… The listening! So damned important.

My primary guy is amazing and kept going until we found. I went from age 14 until 35 before finding this guy, and he’s the first to actually believe me.

I almost accidentally killed myself on ibuprofen… Pain so bad I lost track of how much I was taking since I couldn’t sleep and almost killed my liver. Blood pressure spike well into the stroke ranges…

Glad you found a good one who got you fixed up.

I went through a severe disc intrusion, 68‰ central spinal compression.

Full treatment was anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, followed by a few years of on/off physical therapies and some follow-up steroidal spinal nerve epidural shots for pain treatments.

I note this is likely a more extreme case than you describe, but it might give insight into potential risks or perhaps unexpected things to look forward to.

My issues went untreated for close to about 20 years after onset of first neuropathic symptoms.

Initial symptoms:

Arms burning/pain from any position angled over shoulder height.

Headaches and neck pain, frequent.

Weakness in left arm and hand.

Later these turned to outright muscle spasm in shoulders and neck. Everything became more painful.

Started losing reliable use of left hand and would lose balance and use of left foot. Lots of aching pain in left thigh.

This was around time of diagnosis, consider baseline for me.

I attempted many months of various physical therapy and drug treatments. Some stalled things getting worse, none resolved things. Important to note, I had nerve damage by this time to the central canal.

A neurosurgeon performed a Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion, removing the bad disc layer and using a structure to bond the associated spinal bones C5 and C6 together, including a titanium plate and 2 screws.

I woke up in the recovery feeling better than I had in literal years.

That said, this surgery took place in 2016. I’m still recovering from the nerve damage and muscle death caused my the initial injury.

From the immediate pressure release, I was back to my baseline function within just a few weeks. Surgery related stuff resolved quickly for me.

I slept better than the previous 20 years. Absolutely worth it for me.

I mainly needed physical therapy exercises to keep the neck and shoulder areas stretching out since the muscle trauma can cause tightening.

Since that time, I’m still recovering from the associated nerve damage from the initial compression, but it’s still an amazing night and day improvement.

Aside from the main surgery itself, the things that made the biggest differences for me:

Steroid epidurals: neuro anaesthesiologists can isolate areas inflamed in the region and can target painkillers and steroids to hugely improve many symptoms, often permanently. Not simplest, but easier than surgery and has also helped me with some associated shoulder stenosis greatly. Takes pressure off nerve damage to allow healing and pain relief.

Tizanidine: prescription muscle relaxer. This one functions a bit different than Robaxin / Soma / Valium, and was a life saver for years before they identified the stenosis itself. It was the only relief for the tightness or cramping I’d experience in neck, shoulders, left thigh and calves.

Swimming and cycling: done in low intensity, these have been the most successful exercises at rebuilding the muscle deterioration in my central and lower back. I use a pedal-assist style ebike that let’s me focus the work based on pace and heart rate, with it taking the brunt of harder hills.

Stretches!!! While the strength stuff from PT matters, the stretching stuff matters 10000x more! Needed to work with the therapist to figure stuff that wasn’t in the books etc… Strange angles to isolate the areas specific to my injury. Once we dialed in what I should try to feel from a good stretch, I’ve been able to catch the bad stuff as it starts early pretty often.

Good luck on your treatment, whatever you choose. I hope you find real relief.

Feel free to DM me if you have specific questions or if I can help. This is a lot to digest, and I’m happy to offer clarity.